Plant adaptation to abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity involves complex regulatory processes. Deciphering the signaling components that are involved in stress signal transduction and cellular responses is of importance to understand how plants cope with salt stress. Accumulation of osmolytes such as proline is considered to participate in the osmotic adjustment of plant cells to sali...

Aqueous solutions of the bioprotectant proline are simulated for solute molar fractions ranging from 2.0 · 10 3 to 2.3 · 10 . Statistical analyses show that proline affects the water structure more strongly than glycine betaine and trimethylamine-N-oxide, two of the most effective bioprotectants widely diffuse in nature, and as strongly as tert-butyl alcohol, a protein denaturant which at high ...

Proline accumulation was often correlated with drought tolerance of plants infected by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), whereas lower proline in some AM plants including citrus was also found under drought stress and the relevant mechanisms have not been fully elaborated. In this study proline accumulation and activity of key enzymes relative to proline biosynthesis (▵(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxy...

The binding to poly(L-proline) is used for the affinity purification of profilins, but little is known about the structural and thermodynamic aspects of the interaction. We used changes in the intrinsic fluorescence of profilin, CD spectroscopy, and isothermal titration calorimetry to assess how the size and composition of synthetic proline-rich peptides influence binding to Acanthamoeba and hu...

The amino acid proline has a unique biological role in stress adaptation. Proline metabolism is manipulated under stress by multiple and complex regulatory pathways and can profoundly influence cell death and survival in microorganisms, plants, and animals. Though the effects of proline are mediated by diverse signaling pathways, a common theme appears to be the generation of reactive oxygen sp...

Background: The polymorphic variants at codon 72 of the p53 gene, encoding either proline or arginine at residue 72, produce marked change in the structure of p53. From the evidence that the DNAmismatch repair system and p53 interact to maintain genomic integrity, we hypothesized that the codon 72 variation may influence the prevalence of microsatellite instability; a feature of malignancies as...

A conserved proline residue is found in the first transmembrane domain (M1) of every subunit in the ligand-gated ion channel superfamily. The position of this proline between the N-terminal extracellular agonist binding and the second transmembrane (M2) channel lining domains in the primary sequence suggests its possible involvement in the gating of the receptor. Replacing this proline with ala...

Novel molecularly imprinted photonic crystals (IPCs) for the highly sensitive label-free detection of L-proline and for the chiral recognition of L/D-proline were reported. A series of L-proline imprinted polyacrylamide photonic crystals (PAM-LPIPCs) and poly(acrylamide-co-acrylic acid) photonic crystals (PAM-co-AA-LPIPCs) were fabricated via the in situ polymerization of polystyrene opal. The ...

Substrate oxidation and amino acid transport were examined in the presence of sulfhydryl reagents with membrane preparations from Mycobacferium phlei. Oxidation of exogenously added @-NADH, succinate, ascorbate N, N, N’, IV’-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine, or ascorbate phenazinc methosulfate was inhibited by organic mercurials. The organic mercurials inhibited succinate oxidation between cytoch...